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Alford Blaze Oriental Plane
Platanus orientalis ‘Alford Blaze’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Alford Blaze Oriental Plane - Platanus orientalis ‘Alford Blaze’
Plane trees are not usually grown for autumn colour, which is exactly what makes ‘Alford Blaze’ worth specifying: this selection of Platanus orientalis was chosen for its reliable warm autumn tones of gold, amber and burnt orange before leaf fall. It also holds a somewhat tighter, more even crown than the seedling species, so it is easier to place in a designed landscape. The classic flaking plane bark is unchanged.
Why Alford Blaze
Autumn Colour: Selected specifically for warm gold to orange autumn tones, unusual in the genus.
Uniform Crown: Being a clone, trees in an avenue match each other rather than varying like seedlings.
More Compact Than the Species: A smaller ultimate size makes it usable where the straight species would be too big.
Patterned Bark: Cream and olive flaking bark carries the tree visually through winter.
Urban Toughness: Inherits the plane's tolerance of heat, compaction, drought and pollution.
Ideal Applications
Matched Avenue: Clonal uniformity gives an even, formal line along a drive or street.
Autumn Feature Tree: Placed where the seasonal colour change is a designed event in the garden.
Commercial Landscape Shade: Car parks, plazas and campus lawns where a large durable canopy is needed.
Pleached Screen: Trained on a frame to create a raised deciduous hedge above a boundary wall.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m when pleached
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 12m
Best Planting Season: Winter to early spring while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Wide tolerance including clay and alkaline soils, best growth in deep moist well drained loam
Establishment Care: Deep soak weekly through the first two summers, tapering to occasional deep watering thereafter. Formative prune in the first few winters to establish a single leader and evenly spaced scaffold limbs, and keep the trunk clear of mulch and mower damage.
Plant Details
Height: 12 to 18m
Width: 8 to 12m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous, with gold to orange autumn colour
Light: Full sun
Native to: Species from south east Europe and western Asia
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







